WH Early Humans

The Paleolithic Era is also known as the

• New Stone Age

• Old Stone Age

• Archeology

• Prehistory

These different types of housing are the result of

• Contact with other cultures

• Adaptations to the environment

• Religious beliefs

• Social structure

Place the following hominid groups in the correct chronological order.

OLDEST -------------> NOW

• Homo Sapiens Sapiens – Australopithecines – Homo erectus

• Homo erectus – Homo Sapiens (Neandtherthal) – Homo Sapiens Sapiens

• Homo Sapiens Sapiens – Homo habilis – Homo erectus

• Homo erectus – Homo Sapiens Sapiens – Homo Sapiens

The earliest human remains have been found on the continent of

• Europe

• Asia

• Africa

• South

  America

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Old Stone Age?

• farming

• written

  language

• tool making

• organized

  government

Cave paintings made by prehistoric humans were discovered in

• Lascaux,

  France

• Olduvai

  Gorge, Tanzania

• Laetoli,

  Tanzania

• Ethiopia

The time before people invented writing systems is known as

• geography

• anthropology

• prehistory

• archaeology

8. People who lived during the Old Stone age got food by

• hunting and gathering

• farming

• archeology

• agriculture

What is Archeology?

• the study of dinosaurs

• the study of plants

• the study of early people and their artifacts

• the study of human evolution

Early people stopped moving from place to place with the development of

• Agriculture

• Iron

• The wheel

• Bows and arrows